The King of Attolia (31 page)
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Authors: Megan Whalen Turner
A
s ever, the stories about Attolia, Sounis, and Eddis are fiction. There is no history here. This does not mean that representations of people and events from the real world have not crept in, but even those have been subject to fictionalization. There was a poet named Archilochus in the seventh century BC. We still have fragments of his poems, but the verse quoted in the book is not his. There was a playwright named Aristophanes who wrote comedies with titles like
The Birds
and
The Frogs
. I don’t know that he ever wrote one entirely about farmers, but if he had, it would have been very funny indeed. The gods I describe aren’t real, either. I made them up. The landscapes that surround the stories are based on the actual landscape of modern Greece and on what I imagine ancient Greece to have looked like.
But the setting isn’t Greece, and it isn’t meant to be ancient. With firearms and pocket watches, window glass and printed books, I hope it is more Byzantine than Archaic.
MEGAN WHALEN TURNER
is the author of
Instead of Three Wishes, The Thief
, which was awarded a Newbery Honor, and its sequels,
The Queen of Attolia
and
The King of Attolia
. She lives in Ohio.
You can visit her online at http://home.att.net/~mwturner.
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Cover art © 2006 by Vince Natale
Cover design by Christopher Stengel
This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
THE KING OF ATTOLIA
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